Electromagnetic (EM) nondestructive testing of a lossy dielectric material involves exciting the material with an external EM source, measuring responses on a measuring surface, and inferring the location, shapes and properties of possible flaws. But the interaction of electromagnetic fields with the material is a highly complex process. Three-dimensional computation is therefore required to ac...

the asymmetric problem of rocking rotation of a circular rigid disk embedded in a finite depth of a transversely isotropic half-space is analytically addressed. the rigid disk is assumed to be in frictionless contact with the elastic half-space. by virtue of appropriate green's functions, the mixed boundary value problem is written as a dual integral equation. employing further mathematica...

We present a new method for the solution of the Stokes equations. Our goal is to develop a robust and scalable methodology for two and three dimensional, moving-boundary, flow simulations. Our method is based on Anita Mayo’s method for the Poisson’s equation: “The Fast Solution of Poisson’s and the Biharmonic Equations on Irregular Regions”, SIAM J. Num. Anal., 21 (1984), pp. 285– 299. We embed...

in this paper, the boundary-based estimation of pressure distribution in the cardiovascular system is investigated using two dimensional flow images. the conventional methods of non-invasive estimation of pressure distribution in the cardiovascular flow domain use the differential form of governing equations. this study evaluates the advantages of using the integral form of the equations in the...

the bem is applied to the solution of the torsion problem of non-homogeneous anisotropic non-circular prismatic bars. the problem is formulated in terms of the warping function. this formulation leads to a second order partial differential equation with variable coefficients, subjected to a generalized neumann type boundary condition. the problem is solved using the analog equation method (aem)...

In this work, the least squares weighted residual method is used to solve the two-dimensional (2D) elasticity problem of a rectangular plate of in-plane dimensions 2a 2b subjected to parabolic edge tensile loads applied at the two edges x = a. The problem is expressed using Beltrami–Michell stress formulation. Airy’s stress function method is applied to the stress compatibility equation, and th...

Acoustic scattering by three-dimensional obstacles is considered, using boundary integral equations, null-field equations and the T-matrix. Connections between these techniques are explored. It is shown that solving a boundary integral equation by a particular Petrov–Galerkin method leads to the same algebraic system as obtained from the null-field equations. It is also emphasised that the T-ma...

Keywords: Stefan problem Non-classical heat equation Free boundary problem Similarity solution Nonlinear heat sources Volterra integral equation a b s t r a c t We prove the existence and uniqueness, local in time, of the solution of a one-phase Stefan problem for a non-classical heat equation for a semi-infinite material with a convective boundary condition at the fixed face x = 0. Here the he...